Agenda and Faculty

Who Should Attend:

Anesthesia Professionals, Nurse Anesthetists, and Others

Earn Continuing Education Credits!

• Anesthesia Review - Up to 24 CE Credits
• ACLS Recertification - 8 CE Credits
• PALS Recertification - 8 CE Credits
• Difficult Airway Workshop - 10 CE Credits- CANCELED

Purpose:

To keep the anesthesia professional current in the practice of anesthesiology by providing up-to-date information regarding the dynamic field of anesthesia, while providing opportunities to discuss practice issues with colleagues.

Lecture Schedule:

Louis Guzzi, MD

• Preoperative Evaluation: Who's Responsible?
• Intraoperative Anesthesia Management: Errors and Pitfalls
• Anesthesia Records: The Keys to Proper Documentation
• Anesthesia Record Reviews: What's Wrong With This Chart?
• An Event Has Occurred: Where Do You Go from Here?
• Surgery and Anesthesia Without Using Blood
• Managing Blast Injuries (London Revisited)
• Selecting Safe Agents for Office Based Surgery
• Another Look at Inhalant Pharmacology
• Controlling Intraoperative Cardiovascular Crises

Art Zwerling, MS, MSN, CRNA, FAAPM
Director, College of Nursing Anesthesia Program
University of Pennsylvania

• Addiction Is a Brain Disease: Does It Matter to the Anesthesia Provider?
• Complications of Neuroaxial Anesthesia - What, Me Worry?
• Anesthetic Considerations for Bariatric Surgery
• Current Controversies in Antiometric Therapeutics
• Hypothermia in the OR: Fact or Fiction

Lynnette Flynn, CRNA

• Chest X-Ray Interpretation
• Unraveling the Web on 12-Lead ECG Interpretation

James M. Rich, CRNA, MA- CANCELED

• SLAM Universal Emergency Airway Flowchart (Lecture)
• Airway Anatomy and Assessment (Lecture)
• Oxygenation and Ventilation in Adults (Lecture)
• Direct Laryngoscopy and Tracheal Intubation (Lecture)
• Confirmation of Tracheal Intubation and Monitoring of Lung Ventilation (Lecture)
• Pharmacology of Airway Management (Lecture)
• Rapid Sequence Induction and Intubation in Adults (Lecture)
• Rescue Ventilation (Lecture)
• Direct laryngoscopy and Tracheal Intubation (Hands-on Station)
• Rescue Ventilation (Hands-on Station)
• Rescue Intubation (Hands-on Station)
• Fiberscopic and Advanced Techniques (Hands-on Station)
• Difficult Intubation Options (Hands-on Station)
• Pig Cricothyrotomy Lab (Hands-on Lab featuring percutaneous dilational cricothyrotomy, trans-tracheal jet ventilation, and surgical cricothyrotomy)
• AirMan Skills Testing Station

Evelyn Courson, RN, BS, CCRN

• ACLS Recertification
• PALS Recertification

Disclosure Policy:

Premier Anesthesia Seminars, Inc. reserves the right to substitute speakers/topics should the need arise.

Cancellation Policy:

Should it become necessary for you to cancel prior to 30 days of your conference, a refund will be given minus a $100 cancellation fee along with any ACLS/PALS textbooks mailed, if applicable. To avoid the cancellation fee you may be given a credit for a future seminar taken within six months of the paid seminar. Due to the contract terms with the Resorts, no refunds will be able to be granted after this date.